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Joshua Polacheck: “We are talking about regulations from the 1960s and…”

Featuring: Joshua Polacheck, Democratic | Former Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

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Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published | Video Starts at 22:16

There are outdated regulations with the commission that get in the way of the free market. We are talking about regulations from the 1960s and seventies that provide a non market subsidy to outdated technology. Right now it is cheaper to be building a clean energy future in our state. But instead we are providing perverse incentives to the utilities to be building infrastructure that we don't need and getting in the way of our clean energy future. (22:16–22:25)

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Asserts that regulations from the 1960s and 1970s subsidize outdated technology.

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